As most of you will know, the GNOME team is hard at work on GNOME 3.0, the first major overhaul of the platform since 2002. The release of GNOME 3.0 was originally planned for March 2010, but it has now been pushed back for six months to September 2010.

With the coming of Zeigheist and Gnome-Shell, it was really looking like trying to go with Gnome 3 by March would be dreaming. The fact that the team agreed to push it back is a smart decision. I've tried Gnome-shell and while I can see where they are headed, I'm sure they would like more polish on it and perhaps allow for some of those great panel applets we had before to be a part of it. I'm looking forward to a well thought out and successful release.